THE WAR IN MANCHURIA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7744, 21 February 1905, Page 3

THE WAR IN MANCHURIA.

The RETURN OF STOESSEL. IN Glt ATI T UDE OF THE RUSSIAN PRESS. LONDON, Feb. 19. Two more tlest;oyers have been launched l'or Japan. | Almost the entire Russian press deI nuinds that General Stoossel should be seriously court-niartiailixl. lie asserts that the responsibility re:;ts with the Czar, who since October authorised Him to surrender Port Arthur whenever lie like:l, irrespective of the opinion ol the Couu-il (if War. TIIK JAPANESE ATTACK ON THE RAILWAY.

LONDON, Feb. 19. | A powerful Russian force is massed west of llwaigen. General lvuropatkin reports that Japanese and I Chu Nchuses attacked :ja railway bridge fifteen miles north of I'uiijshutin, but were repulsed,. When Coijonel Lenisky, with a detac'.iment of J Russian frontier guards advanced, it .was surrounded by six s'i[U»\lrons ui J apandic cavalry and four companies of infantry, with two thousand ChuNchuses. The Russians sustained heavy losses, and los't one gun. Thev letirod on Cunshulin. GENERAL STOESSEL. AN IMPROIIAHLE REPORT. (Received Feb. 20, 11.46 p.m.) St. PETERSBURG, Feb. 20. General Stoessel, it is reported, has been ordered to land at Feodosia and entrain there for St. Petersburg. (Feodosia or Theodosia is another name for KalTa, in the S.E. Crimea.)

A REPULSE OF A MINOR RUSSIAN ATTACK. (Received Feb. 20, 11.46 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 20. Field Marshal Oyama reports the repulse of a small infantry attack. ALLEGED ENCROACHMENT ON CHINESE TERRITORY. (Received, Feb. 21, 0.30 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 20. The Morning I'ost's Shanghai correspondent reports that 15,000 Russian infantry, with 64 guns and 300 Cossacks, are near Sinminting, in neutral territory, and disregard the Chinese demand to withdraw. YICTORY IiF.YOND ARMY'S REACH. (Recehed Feb. 21, 0.10 a.m.} LONDON, Feb. 20. The Daily Telegraph's St. Petersburg correspondent says the conviction is growing amongst the highest dignitaries that it. is of vital interest to the dynasty 'to end the war at the earliest possible opportunity, and to acknowledge that victory is beyond the army's reach.